Atikh Rashid

The policy declared by the government on January 27 created a controversy in the state with severe objection from opposition parties. Activist Anna Hazare announced a fast unto death if the government did not roll back the policy.

During the British government’s search for a more centrally-located capital, Viceroy Lord John Lawrence suggested Poona as a “salubrious” option only “eighty miles distant, and connected by railway with Bombay.”

In the late 1700s, British Resident Charles Warre Malet’s dwelling 'Sangam' had emerged as a cultural hub acquainting the Maratha nobility with European arts, sciences and medicine.

The only evidence of Ghashiram's iron fisted reign of Pune is dilapidated parts of the mansion that he (or his sons) built in eastern parts of the city just a few years before Kotwal's gruesome lynching.

After the success of Bajaj scooters, Italian automobile manufacturer Piaggio accused Bajaj Auto of “misappropriating the design of Vespa” and continuing to manufacture the two-wheelers even after the end of the contract in 1971.

The city had separate plague hospitals for Hindus, Muslims, and Parsis, apart from a General Plague Hospital, managed by respective communities to address the concerns of “caste contamination”.

Amol Kolhe has urged people to differentiate between ‘reel life’ and ‘real life’.

The first informal set of rules of badminton — initially called 'Poona' – were formed in India by the British colonists in 1867. Later, as the British officers took the game back home, it acquired the name of Badminton after the country estate of Duke of Beaufort.

🔴 NCP leader Nawab Malik reiterated that Bollywood was being targeted and maligned by central agencies because "a plan has been hatched to shift the film industry to Uttar Pradesh."

In his prolific writing career, Purandare wrote several books, almost exclusively focussing on Shivaii's life and times, including a two-volume biography of 'Raje Shivchhatrapati'.

“I agree with what Kangana has said. We got freedom in alms. The fighters who wanted to snatch it from the British were hanged and the bigwigs at that time did not attempt to save them,” Gokhale said.

In the early 19th century, those travelling between Pune and Mumbai had to journey through the plains using palanquins, carts or horses, then traverse the sea in boats and finally undertake a multi-mile trek along the treacherous Bhor Ghat.

More than 50 drivers, conductors and mechanics were suspended by the MSRTC’s Pune division over ‘disciplinary reasons’ by Thursday evening.

While some historians describe it as an establishment that hosted famed courtesans of the time, others blame it for having begotten the present-day red light area of Budhwar Peth.

The report 'Sanitary State of the City of Poona' submitted by Dr A H Leith to the Bombay Governor in 1863 recommended that the walls of Shaniwar Wada be pulled down to give the city an open square and a wide east-west road.

Police said that the accused seemed to be mentally disturbed and had been taken into custody.

Students will be allowed to attend classes only if they have received both doses of the vaccine

At that time too, the Indian Air Force had carried out a recarpeting of the runway and had shut the airport for all civil flights for 15 days.

Pune Airport shut from October 16: The closure will come as a big jolt to airline traffic which was badly affected due to interstate travel restrictions during and immediately after the second wave of Covid-19 infections and was slowly returning to normal.

Within decades of the British rule, 'Poona Camp' emerged as a suburb physically and culturally distinct from the old city, complete with residential areas, military establishments and bazaars

The 5.5-km-long extension will have three stations serving the heavily populated areas in the southern part of the city.

PMPML electric buses will take tourists from the parking area to the fort located 9 km away.

Hazare said that for the same demand, he had staged a seven-day hunger strike in 2019 during Devendra Fadnavis’s regime and, at that time, Thackeray and Pawar had expressed support for his demand.

Only 744 vaccination centres were open on Wednesday -- 481 public and 263 private ones -- as compared to Tuesday when vaccination took place at a total of 806 centres, including 545 public and 261 private ones.